Former Lawmaker Backs Restructuring Of Economy

The former Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Dunamene Dekor has said that the only way Nigeria can move forward and live in harmony is by restructuring the economy of the country where states should be allowed to control their resources and pay certain percentage of  tax to the federal.
He also posited that nothing has happened in the clean-up of  Ogoniland since the flag-off by this present administration, pointing that the clean-up was a political gimick by some politicians to enable them win election.
Dekor who made this known  in a chat with aviation correspondents at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa noted that the restructuring issue is all about the control of resources and that as an Ogoni man and a Rivers man,  such is what they have been demanding.
According to him, what happened in the North-East that Federal Government is paying more attention to, is not up to 10 per cent of what happened in Ogoni land.
The former deputy speaker, who was also the PDP candidate in the last December 10th rerun election for Gokana/Khana Federal Constituency, said that the National Assembly has requested for the 2014 Confab report, to address the issue.
“As Ogonimen, we are in the forefront of restructuring. It is all about control of resources and the only way to move Nigeria forward is for the economy to be restructured”, he said.
Dekor frowned at the present state of Ogoni land, stressing that what is going on in Ogoni is terrible, as there is virtually no family without a cancer patient.
“There is no clean-up in Ogoni. It is a political gimmick. Nothing is happening and nothing has started and there is nothing on ground to show about the clean up”, he stated.

Corlins Walter